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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
No Programa do Jô desta sexta-feira, 28/11, o apresentador Jô Soares entrevista Marcius Melhem, Emílio Dantas e Kellys Kelfis e Priscila Ullmann.
O ator e comediante Marcius Melhem está junto com seu parceiro mais constante, Leandro Hassum, no filme “Os Caras de Pau”, que tem estreia marcada para 25 de dezembro. Ele também vai falar da nova temporada de Tá No Ar: A TV Na TV, que deve estrear em janeiro na Globo.
Emílio Dantas está interpretando Cazuza no musical: “Cazuza – Pro Dia Nascer Feliz”, em cartaz em São Paulo. Até Ney Matogrosso ficou impressionado com a semelhança entre os dois. Lucinha Araújo, mãe de Cazuza, vai participar da entrevista.
As atrizes Kellys Kelfis e Priscila Ullmann são as idealizadoras do F.E.S.TA. (Festival de Esquetes de Santa Teresa), que este ano acontece nos dias 5, 6 e 7 de dezembro e tem Zéu Britto como um dos jurados. A história delas é bem curiosa, Kellys é da Paraíba, e além de atriz é massoterapeuta. Priscila é de Porto Alegre, formada em Psicologia, e conheceu Kellys há 7 anos, quando fez curso profissionalizante na CAL – Centro de Artes de Laranjeiras, no Rio de Janeiro. O evento é gratuito e vai reunir também oficinas e exposições.
Source Article from http://gshow.globo.com/programas/programa-do-jo/O-Programa/noticia/2014/11/jo-entrevista-marcius-melhem-emilio-dantas-kellys-kelfies-e-priscila-ullmann.html
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
“El Chavo del Ocho”, su programa más célebre, fue el que dio la mayor popularidad a Gómez Bolaños, uno de los más grandes comediantes que ha tenido la región. Esa serie de televisión, que empezó a emitirse en 1971, traspasó no sólo fronteras, sino generaciones. Las historias de la vecindad de “El Chavo del Ocho” siguen vivas en la versión original, en caricatura y en videojuegos.
Gómez Bolaños nació en Ciudad de México el 21 de febrero de 1929. Estudió sin concluir ingeniería en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y comenzó a dedicarse a la producción, la actuación y la dirección. El director de cine Agustín Delgado le puso el apodo de “Chespirito” (Shakespeare chiquito, por su baja estatura), en una comparación españolizada con el dramaturgo inglés William Shakespeare.
“El Chapulín Colorado” fue otra de las series más populares de Gómez Bolaños. Entre sus personajes están también Chaparrón Bonaparte, el doctor Chapatín y el Chómpiras.
Dos de los compañeros de set con los que Gómez Bolaños conservó una buena amistad fueron Rubén Aguirre, El profesor Jirafales, y Édgar Vivar, el Señor Barriga, que encabezó el gran homenaje que se le hizo a nivel regional a principios de 2012 y en el que ambos actores participaron. En cambio, era mala su relación con el actor Carlos Villagrán, que encarnó a Quico en “El Chavo del Ocho”, y con María Antonieta de las Nieves, que dio vida a La Chilindrina y con la que tuvo una pelea legal por los derechos del personaje.
Florinda Meza, Doña Florinda, la emblemática actriz de sus programas, fue el gran amor de su vida. Gómez Bolaños, que era 19 años mayor, se casó con ella en 2004 después de 27 años de vida en común.
La popularidad de “Chespirito” fue tal que cuando abrió la cuenta de Twitter @ChespiritoRGB en 2011 para comunicarse con sus fans empezó a recibir miles de mensajes desde toda América Latina. Actualmente, la cuenta tiene seis millones de seguidores. “Hola. Soy Chespirito. Tengo 82 años, y ésta es la primera vez que tuiteo. Estoy debutando. ¡Síganme los buenos!”, escribió en el primer mensaje. Y en su perfi ratificó su sentido del humor: “Para qué quieren mi perfil si soy más guapo de frente”.
Source Article from http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/ultimas/20-260852-2014-11-28.html
(CNNMxico) — Diversos medios de noticias por todo el mundo, entre ellos CNNMéxico, sufrieron este jueves un hackeo parcial por parte del Ejército Electrónico Sirio (SEA, por sus siglas en inglés).
Además de CNNMéxico, medios como The Guardian, The Telegraph, Independent, Forbes, Daily Telegraph, Al Jazeera, LA Times y la cadena estatal de medios de Canadá CBC, reportaron fallas en parte de sus sitios web.
Gigya, plataforma para la optimización de medios de comunicación social y que brinda servicios a todos estos sitios, reconoció la violación a su registrador de dominios.
“Para ser absolutamente claro: ningún usuario, administrador o los datos operativos se han visto comprometidos y nunca estuvo en riesgo la plataforma”, afirmó Gigya en su blog.
En su cuenta electrónica, el Ejército Electrónico Sirio también se acreditó la intervención como un mensaje a la prensa por el Día de Acción de Gracias.
Happy thanks giving, hope you didn’t miss us! The press: Please don’t pretend #ISIS are civilians. #SEA pic.twitter.com/ZXzMWbXoYp
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) November 27, 2014
No es la primera vez que SEA lanza ataques contra medios de comunicación.
En abril de 2013, la cuenta Twitter de la agencia de noticias Associated Press (AP) publicó mensajes falsos que fueron reivindicados por ese grupo en el que informaba falsamente de dos explosiones en la Casa Blanca y heridas al presidente Barack Obama.
Este hecho provocó fuertes caídas en Wall Street y obligó a Twitter a reforzar las medidas de seguridad para sus usuarios.
Con información de AFP
Source Article from http://mexico.cnn.com/tecnologia/2014/11/27/sitios-de-noticias-sufren-hackeo-en-diversas-partes-del-mundo
Apenas fueron unos segundos, unas cuantas palabras y una sonrisa. Pequeños ‘flashes’ para una persona que pueden ser todo para otra. Gerald Wallace, jugador de los Celtics y uno de los ‘enfant terribles’ de la NBA en sus últimas temporadas, cambió de registro y protagonizó una de esas historias que convierte a la liga estadounidense en algo más que una competición deportiva.
Sucedió justo antes de un partido en el TD Garden, cuando el alero se sentó junto a Davis Randall, un joven aficionado con Síndrome de Down. Durante apenas unos minutos jugador y aficionado compartieron momentos de risas y confidencias que para el joven se transformarían en felicidad eterna. No obstante, el sueño del joven Davis, como el de otros millones de niños, es llegar algún día a la NBA.
Ese simple gesto hizo que Davis no haya borrado aún la sonrisa de su joven rostro. Wallace se había ganado un fan de por vida. Bueno, en realidad dos. La acción del jugador de los Celtics ha tenido una reacción en forma de una emotiva carta de la madre del niño,Sharon, agradeciéndole el gesto hacia su hijo. Este es el mensaje publicado en The Mighty.
“Querido Gerald Wallace,
Gracias por sentarse y hablar con mi hijo, Davis. Aunque, para usted, este era sólo un momento más antes de ir a su trabajo como jugador de baloncesto de los Boston Celtics, para nosotros fue un sueño vivido para nuestro hijo.
No sé si Davis lo mencionó o no, pero él también quiere ser un jugador profesional de baloncesto. A pesar de las pocas posibilidades de llegar a la NBA, Davis no se rendirá. El optimismo es una de sus mejores cualidades.
Esta puede ser una de las cosas más difíciles acerca de ser la madre de Davis. ¿Cómo puedo alentarle para conseguir sus sueños, sabiendo que sus aspiraciones están fuera de su alcance? ¿Llegaremos al punto cuando nos sentemos a la mesa, cuando él tenga 30 años, y finalmente se dé cuenta de que eso que él ansía no va a suceder? ¿O por el contrario seguiremos, dentro de 20 años, hablándole sobre en qué posición del draft le van a escoger? ¿Le importará a él? ¿Sólo me importará a mí?
Sé que nuestra sociedad no valora a personas como Davis, lentos tanto en la mente y el cuerpo, pero Davis no sabe eso. Él sabe que nuestra sociedad valora a los atletas profesionales y por eso él quiere llegar a ser uno de ellos, no sólo por su amor al juego, sino también por sus recompensas. ¿Le habló sobre la mansión que quiere comprar con su sueldo NBA?
Mientras navegamos por el terreno que supone guiar a este niño mientras crece, queremos agradecerle la oportunidad de darnos una historia que sostenga sus sueños y llenar su vacío. Siempre hablamos del día en el que se sentó con Gerald Wallace y pudo tirar con él a canasta y que nos permitió acercarnos a su sueño”.
Source Article from http://www.marca.com/2014/11/28/baloncesto/nba/noticias/1417164390.html
En nba en las últimas 24 horas
- Nick Young, el ligón tuitero de los Lakers, nos desvela cómo seducir a alguien como Iggy Azzalea
- Marc, el mejor pívot de la NBA
- El gesto más humano de todo un ‘enfant terrible’ como Gerald Wallace y la reacción que provoca
- Telfair, el último ‘pavo’ sacrificado en Acción Gracias: La NBA no entiende de fechas señaladas
- ‘La Barba’ Harden se ríe de sí mismo y de las críticas a su inexistente defensa
- Pau firma su octavo doble-doble para derrotar a los Celtics
- ¡Lo que es capaz de hacer el hijo de Mike Bibby!
- Calderón muestra su preocupación en MARCA: “De momento no somos capaces de ganar”
- Le parten la mandíbula de un rodillazo
- Nick Young: “Lo que voy a hacer con ese culo no debería ser legal”
Source Article from http://www.marca.com/2014/11/28/baloncesto/nba/noticias/1417209028.html
(CNNMxico) — Diversos medios de noticias por todo el mundo, entre ellos CNNMéxico, sufrieron este jueves un hackeo parcial por parte del Ejército Electrónico Sirio (SEA, por sus siglas en inglés).
Además de CNNMéxico, medios como The Guardian, The Telegraph, Independent, Forbes, Daily Telegraph, Al Jazeera, LA Times y la cadena estatal de medios de Canadá CBC, reportaron fallas en parte de sus sitios web.
Gigya, plataforma para la optimización de medios de comunicación social y que brinda servicios a todos estos sitios, reconoció la violación a su registrador de dominios.
“Para ser absolutamente claro: ningún usuario, administrador o los datos operativos se han visto comprometidos y nunca estuvo en riesgo la plataforma”, afirmó Gigya en su blog.
En su cuenta electrónica, el Ejército Electrónico Sirio también se acreditó la intervención como un mensaje a la prensa por el Día de Acción de Gracias.
Happy thanks giving, hope you didn’t miss us! The press: Please don’t pretend #ISIS are civilians. #SEA pic.twitter.com/ZXzMWbXoYp
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) November 27, 2014
No es la primera vez que SEA lanza ataques contra medios de comunicación.
En abril de 2013, la cuenta Twitter de la agencia de noticias Associated Press (AP) publicó mensajes falsos que fueron reivindicados por ese grupo en el que informaba falsamente de dos explosiones en la Casa Blanca y heridas al presidente Barack Obama.
Este hecho provocó fuertes caídas en Wall Street y obligó a Twitter a reforzar las medidas de seguridad para sus usuarios.
Con información de AFP
Source Article from http://mexico.cnn.com/tecnologia/2014/11/27/sitios-de-noticias-sufren-hackeo-en-diversas-partes-del-mundo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
(CNNMxico) — Diversos medios de noticias por todo el mundo, entre ellos CNNMéxico, sufrieron este jueves un hackeo parcial por parte del Ejército Electrónico Sirio (SEA, por sus siglas en inglés).
Además de CNNMéxico, medios como The Guardian, The Telegraph, Independent, Forbes, Daily Telegraph, Al Jazeera, LA Times y la cadena estatal de medios de Canadá CBC, reportaron fallas en parte de sus sitios web.
Gigya, plataforma para la optimización de medios de comunicación social y que brinda servicios a todos estos sitios, reconoció la violación a su registrador de dominios.
“Para ser absolutamente claro: ningún usuario, administrador o los datos operativos se han visto comprometidos y nunca estuvo en riesgo la plataforma”, afirmó Gigya en su blog.
En su cuenta electrónica, el Ejército Electrónico Sirio también se acreditó la intervención como un mensaje a la prensa por el Día de Acción de Gracias.
Happy thanks giving, hope you didn’t miss us! The press: Please don’t pretend #ISIS are civilians. #SEA pic.twitter.com/ZXzMWbXoYp
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) November 27, 2014
No es la primera vez que SEA lanza ataques contra medios de comunicación.
En abril de 2013, la cuenta Twitter de la agencia de noticias Associated Press (AP) publicó mensajes falsos que fueron reivindicados por ese grupo en el que informaba falsamente de dos explosiones en la Casa Blanca y heridas al presidente Barack Obama.
Este hecho provocó fuertes caídas en Wall Street y obligó a Twitter a reforzar las medidas de seguridad para sus usuarios.
Con información de AFP
Source Article from http://mexico.cnn.com/tecnologia/2014/11/27/sitios-de-noticias-sufren-hackeo-en-diversas-partes-del-mundo
(CNNMxico) — Diversos medios de noticias por todo el mundo, entre ellos CNNMéxico, sufrieron este jueves un hackeo parcial por parte del Ejército Electrónico Sirio (SEA, por sus siglas en inglés).
Además de CNNMéxico, medios como The Guardian, The Telegraph, Independent, Forbes, Daily Telegraph, Al Jazeera, LA Times y la cadena estatal de medios de Canadá CBC, reportaron fallas en parte de sus sitios web.
Gigya, plataforma para la optimización de medios de comunicación social y que brinda servicios a todos estos sitios, reconoció la violación a su registrador de dominios.
“Para ser absolutamente claro: ningún usuario, administrador o los datos operativos se han visto comprometidos y nunca estuvo en riesgo la plataforma”, afirmó Gigya en su blog.
En su cuenta electrónica, el Ejército Electrónico Sirio también se acreditó la intervención como un mensaje a la prensa por el Día de Acción de Gracias.
Happy thanks giving, hope you didn’t miss us! The press: Please don’t pretend #ISIS are civilians. #SEA pic.twitter.com/ZXzMWbXoYp
— SyrianElectronicArmy (@Official_SEA16) November 27, 2014
No es la primera vez que SEA lanza ataques contra medios de comunicación.
En abril de 2013, la cuenta Twitter de la agencia de noticias Associated Press (AP) publicó mensajes falsos que fueron reivindicados por ese grupo en el que informaba falsamente de dos explosiones en la Casa Blanca y heridas al presidente Barack Obama.
Este hecho provocó fuertes caídas en Wall Street y obligó a Twitter a reforzar las medidas de seguridad para sus usuarios.
Con información de AFP
Source Article from http://mexico.cnn.com/tecnologia/2014/11/27/sitios-de-noticias-sufren-hackeo-en-diversas-partes-del-mundo
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faced fresh questions on Wednesday about his dealings with a company at the center of a conflict-of-interest scandal, after it emerged that he enjoyed rent-free use of a house belonging to the firm as a campaign office.
Already under pressure over the government’s handling of the presumed massacre of 43 students abducted by corrupt police in southwestern Mexico in September, Pena Nieto is facing his most difficult period since taking office two years ago.
On Nov. 3, the government announced a Chinese-led consortium had won a no bid contract to build a $3.75 billion high-speed rail link in central Mexico.
Three days later, the government abruptly canceled the deal, just before a report by news site Aristegui Noticias showed that a subsidiary of Grupo Higa, a company that formed part of the consortium and had won various previous contracts, owned the luxury house of first lady Angelica Rivera.
Under public pressure, Rivera said she would give up the house. But neither she nor Pena Nieto have addressed the apparent conflict of interest stemming from the government’s business with Grupo Higa.
On Wednesday, Aristegui Noticias published a new story that said Pena Nieto used a different property belonging to another Grupo Higa subsidiary as an office when he was president-elect in 2012.
Eduardo Sanchez, the president’s spokesman, said Pena Nieto unwittingly used the property. Sanchez said it was leased from the Grupo Higa firm by Humberto Castillejos, the president’s legal adviser, who lent it rent-free to Pena Nieto’s team.
“If I invite you to my house, do you come to my house and ask me under whose name it is? Neither does the president,” Sanchez said, denying there were conflicts of interest.
The spokesman also said there were no more properties Pena Nieto or his team had used belonging to Grupo Higa.
“No, there is no other house that was used in a professional capacity,” Sanchez said.
Castillejos could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge Luis Lavalle, a senator with the opposition conservative National Action Party, said the public saw a clear conflict of interest in the dealings of Pena Nieto and his government with Grupo Higa.
“It needs to be investigated. All these doubts need to be dispelled fully and clearly,” he said. “We now have another case with no explanation.”
(Additional reporting by Ana Isabel Martinez; Editing by Simon Gardner and Tom Brown)
Source Article from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/26/us-mexico-president-idUSKCN0JA22220141126
The Chinese company whose $4.3
billion high-speed rail contract was canceled by Mexico
threatened legal action amid news reports that one of the bid
partners built a home for first lady Angelica Rivera.
“Our company is extremely shocked” by the revocation,
Beijing-based China Railway Construction Corp. (1186) said, according
to the official Xinhua News Agency. “We will resort to legal
means to protect the company’s legitimate interest when it’s
necessary.”
Mexico rescinded the contract last week, citing “doubts
and concerns” about the winning group, which included four
Mexican partners. One, Constructora Teya, is part of a
construction group known as Grupo Higa that built a home for
President Enrique Pena Nieto’s family in Mexico City, Mexican
news website Aristegui Noticias reported yesterday.
Eduardo Sanchez, a presidential spokesman, didn’t respond
to requests for comment over the past two days. Pena Nieto’s
office said in a Nov. 9 statement the first lady bought “real
estate assets” from Ingenieria Inmobiliaria del Centro and
continues to make payments.
The statement didn’t connect the home of Rivera, a former
soap opera star, to the president’s decision to scrap the train
deal.
The Aristegui Noticias report said the home, which it
referred to as the “White House,” is still registered to
Ingenieria Inmobiliaria del Centro, a unit of Grupo Higa.
Political Risk?
Pena Nieto may sustain some political damage if a large
number of Mexicans suspect the builder got preferential
treatment in the rail bidding because of ties to the
presidential couple, according to Mexico-based political
consultant Alfonso Zarate, who works with public-sector
institutions and business groups.
The house’s opulence also may hurt the president’s image,
Zarate said. Aristegui Noticias reported the home’s value at 86
million pesos ($6.3 million).
“In a country with so much poverty and so much inequality,
this type of mansion is an insult to the majority of the
population,” Zarate said.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Pena Nieto, who is visiting
Beijing, he hopes Mexico can treat Chinese companies equally,
according to a statement posted on the central government’s
official microblog. Li expressed regret on the rail tender
cancellation by Mexico.
China Railway won the contract on Nov. 3, and Pena Nieto’s
government announced the cancellation three days later. The
company’s stock sank 5.7 percent in Hong Kong after Mexico’s
decision. It fell 3.8 percent to HK$8.11 today.
The contract would have been the first large transportation
investment in Mexico by a Chinese company and the biggest award
by the public-works ministry under Pena Nieto, who took office
in 2012.
To contact the reporters on this story:
Nacha Cattan in Mexico City at
ncattan@bloomberg.net;
Linly Lin in New York at
llin153@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Ed Dufner at
edufner@bloomberg.net
Molly Schuetz, James Callan
Source Article from http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-11-10/china-railway-threatens-legal-means-as-mexico-bails-amid-scandal
Desde hace algunas horas, diversos sitios de noticias en el mundo reportan haber sido parte de un ataque hacker masivo proveniente del Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), un grupo que anteriormente ha realizado lo mismo con The Financial Times, The New York Times, CBS y otros medios.
A part of our website run by a third-party was compromised earlier today. We’ve removed the component. No Telegraph user data was affected.
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) November 27, 2014
Y hoy, medios informativos como The Independent, Forbes, CBC News, VentureBeat, The Chicago Tribune, London Evening Standard y PC World confirmaron una caída en sus servicios, aunque el el caso de Forbes se descargaron bases de datos con millones de nombres de usuarios, correos electrónicos y contraseñas.
We are aware of the issue with our site & hope it will pass soon. It’s not affecting all users http://t.co/MnZ9Tn4baO pic.twitter.com/reMRVWqclJ
— The Independent (@Independent) November 27, 2014
Hello, we are aware the site has been hacked, with a note from the “Syrian Electronic Army.” Tech people looking into it #cbcns
— CBC Nova Scotia (@CBCNS) November 27, 2014
No es la primera vez que el SEA realiza este tipo de ataques. En 2013 tomaron el control de la cuenta de Associated Press y tuitearon sobre un supuesto ataque a la Casa Blanca, provocando alarma en los medios.
Source Article from http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2014/11/659-606333-9-hackers-del-ejercito-electronico-sirio-atacan-multiples-sitios-de-noticias-en-el.shtml
Not long ago, President Enrique Peña Nieto opened his hangar doors for the most expensive presidential jet in the entire world. This time, the investigative journalists team of Aristegui Noticias has exposed his nearly $7MM mansion, referred to as the ‘White House’. The residence is located in Lomas de Chapultepec, which is one of the most prestigious areas of Mexico City. Coincidentally, the luxurious home is neither under the President or his wife, Angelica Rivera’s name, but under Grupo Higa, a construction company which was on the verge of benefitting from a millionaire contract to build a train from DF to the city of Queretaro. The house is, however, adjacent to one of the actress’s residences in the parallel street.
While such contract recently fell through due to other construction company’s complaints about the little time they’d had to pitch for the projects, Mexico’s First Lady did call the mansion “their home.” In May 2013, Rivera gave her first interview as Peña Nieto’s wife to socialite magazine ‘¡Hola!’ where she said, “In our house, we lead our lives as normal as possible. I’ve let them know that ‘Los Pinos’ has been lent to us for only six years, but our true house, our home, is right here where this interview is taking place.”
The mansion known as “La Palma”, was built by architect Miguel Aragonés and painted in all white with a lighting system that can turn the walls, any color desired. Its luxuries include a huge, underground parking lot, an elevator connecting all floors, an outdoor living room and dining room, multiple bedrooms plus a main one with separate walk in closets, bathrooms and spa areas. The home of the presidential family is being maintained and looked after by the President’s staff (EMP) in the meantime, which are reportedly ensuring everything is adapted to the Peña’s family’s needs.
Grupo Higa, whose name the mansion is under, is affiliated with construction company Constructora Teya, which highly benefited from Peña Nieto’s government of Estado de México, as he granted the company numerous projects and helicopter rents.
Source Article from http://www.latintimes.com/enrique-pena-nietos-white-house-mansion-exposed-see-house-valued-almost-7mm-dollars-274599